The Grenfell report: who was at fault?

The inquiry into Britain's worst residential fire since the Blitz has taken seven years, and uncovered an extraordinary range of failings

Menana Jabari (left), who lost her daughter and grandchildren in the Grenfell Tower fire, looks at a wall displaying pictures of the 72 people killed in the blaze, at a press conference at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London following the publication of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Menana Jabari (left), who lost her daughter and grandchildren in the Grenfell Tower fire, looks at a wall displaying pictures of the 72 people killed in the blaze, at a press conference at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London following the publication of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
(Image credit: Justin Tallis / AFP / Getty Images)

"The simple truth," said the Grenfell inquiry chair, retired judge Martin Moore-Bick, is that the deaths of 54 adults and 18 children in Grenfell Tower in west London "were all avoidable, and those who lived in the tower were badly failed over a number of years, and in a number of different ways, by those who were responsible for ensuring the safety of the building and its occupants."

How did the fire start?

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